We know a few things about Booth in my neck of the woods. The oil boom started here in 1859, and Booth actually lived in my small town briefly. He was an investor in one of the umpty-gazillion speculative oil companies that formed in these parts. His plan, apparently, was to strike it rich and use Yankee money to help finance the insurrectionist cause. He was a minor celebrity in town, by most accounts charming and popular. But his wells didn't come in, and he moved on to his next plan. The wells he had invested in did come in big later, which leads to one of those historical questions-- if the well had come in sooner, would Lincoln have lived? History sometimes turns on the smallest random details.
At any rate, here's some reading for the week. Remember to share!
Stephen Dyer examines the latest piece of Ohio's attempt to become the Florida of the Midwest by siphoning funds away from public schools.
Jeff Waid gives credit to the Los Angeles school district, which has emerged as one of the districts brave enough to hold the line against ICE.
Not that there's any reason to have doubted, but Jan Resseger has the word from experts on how not legal the extortion attempt is.
Steve Nuzum provides another update from South Carolina's attempts to curtail reading. Because that's how you get rid of certain ideas, and maybe even certain people.
Audrey Watters on resistance to AI panic.
For Chalkbeat, Kalyn Belsha covers the ongoing federal attacks on Maine (because its governor wouldn't kiss the ring).
Rob Rogers urges us to resist the fear being hosed into education circles and to be especially aware of the threat to students with special needs.
The Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights has been looking into the question of why Native American students in Rapid City, SD, were so much more likely to be disciplined, but under the new regime that investigation will be dropped. Laura Meckler covers it for the Washington Post.
Benjamin Riley went to the ASU-GSV summit and ed tech super-fair, and was pretty alarmed by what he saw and heard there.
Andru Volinsky asks a basic question about education, and he has some answers from our national past.
The state's GOP board of education had already stripped all that modern learnin' from the textbooks, but that didn't go far enough for other officials who objected to stuff about vaccines and polio and the United Nations, among other non-medieval items. The Texas Tribune and ProPublica team up again.
Jose Luis Vilson considers what puts the "public" in public schools (or keeps it out).
NAEP, the Nation’s Report Card, was supposed to be safe. It’s not
Jill Barshay at Hechinger has some more news about the cloudy fate of NAEP.
All that DOGEing is working out just great for children. Send it back to the states, indeed.
Nancy Flanagan was at the NPE conference last week (and I was lucky enough to get to say hi). Here she explains why these are such a good thing.
In 1960, a college professor volunteered to in a high school for a semester, and boy did he learn some things. Larry Cuban reprints this trip down memory lane that will seem not unfamiliar.
This week at Forbes.com I wrote about Andru Volinsky's new book about New Hampshire's landmark Claremont decisions and the American Library Association's annual report.
Here's another astonishing new video from OK GO. If you're really intrigued by this one shot video, here's a "making of" video. Humans are so amazing. "We made this so that you can feel that."
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